Believers disagree on the timing, but the anchor is settled: you are not destined for God's condemning wrath. Scripture gives certainty about your destiny, not about every stage of the timeline. Either way, you belong to the One who bore your judgment.
The Grace Answer
This is the question underneath all the timing debates, and it deserves a straight answer to the fear behind it: will I have to face the wrath?
Start with the sentence Paul wrote to anxious believers who thought they had missed something. God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. That is the settled verdict over your life. You are not destined for God's eschatological wrath or for condemnation. Christ bore your condemning judgment at the cross, and there is none left with your name on it.
Notice what that promise does and does not answer. It guarantees you will never face God's final wrath. It does not by itself tell you whether Christians may live through persecution, societal collapse, or some portion of a final crisis. Trials from a broken world are one thing, and the church has always walked through those. God's wrath is another thing entirely, and that is what you are promised to escape.
Certainty about the destination, humility about the route
From there the views branch. Some read Jesus' promise to keep His church from the hour of trial as a pledge that He gathers His people before that season falls. Others read the same words as preservation through it, the way Israel sat safe in Goshen while the plagues struck Egypt. That promise was first spoken to a specific church, Philadelphia, and its wider application is debated rather than automatic. Even the phrase keep from can mean removal before or protection within.
So here is the honest anchor. Scripture gives believers certainty about their destiny, not equal certainty about every stage of the timeline. Christians may disagree over whether the church is removed before the final crisis or carried through part of it. What is not disputed is that those in Christ are not destined for condemnation or the final wrath of God.
Hold your timeline loosely and your Savior tightly. You are not kept safe because you decoded the calendar. You are kept safe because you are in Christ. The One who kept you through every day until now is not going to fumble you at the finish.